Sunday, July 05, 2026

Racist skinheads attack GLC 'Jobs for a Change' festival while Redskins and Hank Wangford band play (June 1984)

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On June 10 1984 the left Labour-led Greater London Council, on the verge of being abolished by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governme...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Up the Youth Club - and my punk period Luton youth club memories

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Emma Warren's 'Up the Youth Club: illuminating a hidden history' is an enthusiastic account of 150 years of recreational provisi...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Opposing the National Front in Hitchin, 1971

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Today, as in the past, the fight against the far right has to be taken to small towns as well as to city streets. Back in 1971, the town of ...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

'When it's time to be blunt, we be blunt. And when it's time to be poetic, we be poetic' - Fugees interview (1994)

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Quite an early interview with the Fugees from Minneapolis anarchist paper ' The Blast'   (March 1995 - though interview was at time ...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

France: resistance steps up to criminalisation of free parties

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Protests are taking place throughout France against a proposed new law targeting free parties. Thousands took part in a demonstration in Mon...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

'Anarchy, Peace, Tea and Two Sugars' - Roseberry Avenue Squat, 1983

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From NME, 1 October 1983, a report of anarchist squat centres in London including Kafe Kollapse in West Hampstead, the Burn it Down Ballroom...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Luton Jazz Boom (1958-63)

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My mum mentioned to me recently that she went to a jazz club in Luton at the TUC Hall in Church Street around 1960, which got me searching t...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Horkheimer, skyscrapers and 'the animal hell in human society' (and a fox in the Shard)

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Max Horkheimer (1935)– ' Der Wolkenkratzer / The Skyscraper': 'A cross section of today's social structure would have to sho...
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

‘It was so queer being awake and having dreams’: social conformity and utopian subversion in the Magic Faraway Tree

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So a mere 80 years after it was first published there is finally a movie version of Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree - the favourite...